From: Junio C Hamano <gitster@pobox.com>
Date: Mon, 01 Feb 2010 18:45:29 GMT
Subject: Re: pack.packSizeLimit, safety checks
Message-ID: <7vvdeg23sm.fsf@alter.siamese.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.1002011240510.1681@xanadu.home>

Nicolas Pitre <nico@fluxnic.net> writes:

> While I share your concern for advance warning and such, I think those 
> concerns are worth an effort proportional to the depth of user exposure.  
> Like for the THREADED_DELTA_SEARCH case, I'm wondering how much pain if 
> at all might be saved with a transition plan vs the cost of maintaining 
> that plan and carrying the discrepancy further.

Absolutely.  I just wanted to hear that --max-pack-size command line
option is not widely used and it is Ok to change it.